Central Iowa weather hit 50 and 60 degrees in the middle of February! That meant it was time to check my bees. The emergency food has not been touched and the population still looks great. I believe the bees are telling me that brood rearing later in the season is good.
I remember a couple times in my childhood when either my mom or grandma would go to Highland Park Bakery and get us kids a special occasion individual cake — a large petit four shaped like an Easter egg or something like below, which I found in the bakery’s Facebook photos: This year, I thought about those cakes, and remembered…